Welcome to House Hunting. Here, we will take you on a tour, inside and outside, of an area house for sale. And we promise these won’t be ordinary houses. In addition to lots of photos and a written description of each house, our house-hunting team, Kevin Prior, marketing director for the Daily News, and Lori Qualls, Accent editor of the Daily News, will share what they like about each place.

What a view! That will be your first reaction when you look at the windows of this house located at 1115 W. St. Andrews. The ranch style home is located directly across from and faces the Midland Country Club, sits on a large lot measuring 128-by-275-feet, and is priced at $287,300. The view out the back, over the completely fenced yard, is incredible with the large wooded lot with expansive decking and established trees - beautiful in both directions!

The home was originally built in 1941 and has been added on and remodeled over the years and now boasts 2,380 square feet with three bedrooms and three full bathrooms. The curved driveway leads you to the house with a handy turn-around as well. The home has large spans of windows across the front taking advantage of the wide open view. The location of the home on the curve of West Saint Andrews adds to the view and lets you really take in a wide range of the surrounding properties and golf course. The combination of stone, brick and wood siding gives the home a custom feel, kind of like the home was added on to accommodate the needs of the family in the home at the time.

The front door takes you into a nice vestibule/foyer area complete with built-in entry closet and a full wall mirror on the opposite side. Directly across from the front entry are the stairs to the lower level completely surrounded with a half wall on the living room side and a metal rail and gate on the others. The formal living room, measuring 17-by-21-feet, is on the far right of the home with beautiful hardwood floors and large windows looking out over the front and side of the property. The built-in cabinetry and fireplace surround is beautifully finished wood, and can lights in the ceiling illuminate the room in addition to the natural light of the windows.

To the left of the entry is the formal dining room, measuring 10-by-14-feet with a corner window and a built-in serving buffet. A large contemporary chandelier graces the room and makes for an elegant setting. The kitchen is directly off the dining room and measures 11-by-21-feet and is all about the ultimate food preparation area. Basically a galley style kitchen, the one side of the room has windows spanning across the front of the home looking out over the property. The light cabinetry combined with the natural wood, in addition to the drop ceiling lighting and all the windows make the kitchen light and bright, and there is plenty of room for everything. You would not be lacking for counter space in this kitchen!

The kitchen opens onto the family room directly behind the two-car attached garage. The family room measures 17-by-21, and spans all the way to the back of the home where patio doors open onto the incredibly large yard. The family room is quite a design statement with an extremely large octagon shaped skylight illuminating the room in addition to a modern design fireplace with a combination of stone and brick. It makes quite a statement.

Headed down the hallway to the bedrooms, a full bath is behind the kitchen with a sink, toilet and the most unique walk-in shower with a curved wall and beautiful ceramic tile. As with the family room, a bold design statement, but definitely one of a kind.

The three bedrooms are all in the back of the home. The master bedroom is at the far right, behind the living room and measures 15-by-21-feet and is carpeted. The L-shaped room has beautiful woodwork on the several built-in closets, dresser drawers and vanity areas and offers a nice arrangement for both the bed and a seating area. A skylight illuminates this room as well. The master has its own full private bath right off the bedroom.

The other two bedrooms both have hardwood floors and share a pass-through closet that allows you to go from room to room. The one bedroom measures 10-by-15-feet and the other 9-by-13-feet. These two bedrooms share a full bath in the hall. The attic has been finished into a room as well with a ladder leading to it and a pop up door in the floor - a young boy’s dream bedroom could be just a few steps away! The room’s ceiling has open beams and follows the roof line of the home, and although the room has limited access, it would make a great get-away.

The lower level of the home is partly finished basement, and part crawl space. The finished basement is under the original footprint of the home and is lined with knotty pine that gives the room a warm and cozy feeling that is made even more so with the fireplace on the one wall. A niche in the one corner of the room would make a great bar area, and this could be your party headquarters. The other side of the basement houses the utilities.

For more information on this home or to arrange a private showing, contact Matthew Rapanos of Century 21 Central at 989-837-2100.

He said, she said

Kevin says: What a unique home, and what possibilities! You certainly could move in to this house as is and live in it, but you could also go through and re-do some things and make this really a showcase home. The best thing is that a lot of the work has already been done including new roof, new paint and new carpet. This would be a great house to move in now, and work on it as time (and money) allows knowing that in this great location you are always going to get your money out of any investment that you put in the house. The biggest bonus, of course, is the incredible lot — 128-by-275-feet, you just don’t see lots like this in the middle of the city anymore.

Lori says: This house is definitely one of a kind. The sprawling ranch makes a striking presence from curbside but once inside there are several features that you won’t see anywhere else. The family room has a stone fireplace with a curved red brick pattern that sweeps down and around and forms the hearth. (There has to be a story behind this fireplace!) Another curve is found in one of showers, which is tiled from top to bottom with blue ceramic. The wood for the living room fireplace mantle and bookcase is brilliant and smooth, and almost looks like it is flowing.